quickpost123

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   by quickpost123 6y ago

   Strongly agree. My original plan on unsubscribing was to come back if they blinked on SlateStarCodex (everyone makes mistakes), but after being made to jump through these extra hoops, I'm through with this company.
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   by quickpost123 6y ago

   Anecdotally, it took ten minutes to unsusbscribe this morning (going through an online chat service rather than calling them), which is much longer than it should take, but worth it. It may be worse now due to this incident.
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   by quickpost123 6y ago

   Good point -- appellate courts have been known to make rulings of the effect "this govt employee gets qualified immunity, but future govt employees are put on notice," but this is far from every case.
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   by quickpost123 6y ago

   As others have said, it actually wasn't a law that was put in place -- it's court-created. Qualified Immunity says that an officer can't be sued for violating civil rights (Section 1983) unless it was clear at the time of the